Assisted Suicide Case Study

We do agreed there is a dilemma in this case. As the chairman of the ethics committee, I found that the dilemma here is that both the patient as well as the hospital staff are right in their view. A person has the right to choose to die however we cannot make a physician carry out the process. With my understanding, we are all on the same agreement and have been informed with all the information about this dilemma. Dr. Vijay has informed that removing Margie’s pacemaker would violate the ethics principles of justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. If he followed through with Margie’s request, he would be going against helping others, avoiding or causing damage to patients, and disregarding the risks and benefits of Margie by performing the requested actions. Jane Robison has expressed that doing what Margie has requested would not be good for Margie nor her profession due to the ethics standards that are withheld for all the patients. She believes that with

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Advances in medical treatments have raised the average life expectancy of people in Canada. However, it fails to guarantee a perfectly healthy life for people who experience incurable diseases. The rising interest in Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada, is an outcome of the desire of people to have a greater control over their lives in terms of their capacity to determine death when the patients are terminally ill.

A. There is no fundamental liberty that promotes the idea of a legal right to die.

On 11/19/16 at 1156 hrs, I was dispatched to Carrollwood 4068 78th Ave Apt 5, Pinellas Park 33781. Reference the complainant’s daughter receiving text messages from her daughter’s boyfriend stating they were going to committed suicide.

Admitted through the Emergency Room at 4 PM to a semi-private room is Maggie P., a 78-year-old retired Registered Nurse with end-stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Her temperature is 98.7, B/P 130/92, heart rate 124 and respirations are labored and irregular at 37 per minute. She appears frail and weighs 89 pounds. She is pale with a bluish hue to her lips and nail beds. Oxygen at 3 liters per minute is applied via nasal cannula. She is alert and oriented to time, place, and person. She coughs intermittently, expectorating copious amount of thick gray, blood-tinged sputum. She complains of back and rib pain and 5mg of Morphine Sulfate in administered intramuscularly. On assessment the nurse lists, between

Assisted Suicide Law should be legalized in the United States to help to reduce the financial burden for patient's family. We should look a controversial issue at many aspects, including the financial aspect because it has

The Canadian justice system is supposed to be neutral, fair, objective, and impartial. However, we can see that this is not the reality but rather often times it can be oppressive, constraining, and enforces discriminatory legislation or policies that directly or indirectly works to target certain groups of people. This is especially evident when we look at the criminal laws which criminalize non-able-bodied and terminally ill individuals, who seek out assistance in dying because they feel that their life is no longer worth living, and as a result takes away their dignity and right to autonomy. The decriminalization of physician-assisted suicide is fundamental in order to achieve and maintain the equality, autonomy, and dignity of all individuals.

An elderly Toronto man, of the age of 81, has died just 24 hours after a court affirmed his appeal to doctor assisted suicide. A.B. was a husband and grandfather who had been suffering from the advanced propelling stages of terminal lymphoma and was diagnosed in 2012. A.B. was bed-ridden and intolerable pain, despite being prescribed pain killers and other narcotics. A.B. appealed to the Supreme Court three months prior to his death, to fight for what he deemed to be right so fundamentally. To have the right to decide when one can no longer preserve through the torment of a disease and to be helped to death by a doctor, keeping in mind the end goal to go with tranquility and dignity. He was granted permission on Thursday, March 17,2016 from

Physician-Assisted Suicide is legalized in the following states: Oregon,California, Montana, Washington, Colorado, and Washington D.C. Oregon was the first state who legalized Physician-Assisted Suicide. “The very first annual report on the usage of the new Oregon Death with Dignity Act showed that 14 physicians prescribed medications under the law to 24 patients received prescriptions under the new law, of which 16 chose to take the medications. The patients’ median age of the patients was 69.”, (“MenuSite Navigation  Death with Dignity Act Annual Reports.” Oregon Health Authority : Death with Dignity Act Annual Reports : Death with Dignity Act : State of Oregon, www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/ProviderPartnerResources/EvaluationResearch/DeathwithDignityAct/Pages/ar-index.aspx.).

He came to his appointment approximately 25 minutes late. Therefore, we had less than 30 minutes for this intake. He presented with a sense of anxiety related to his concerns for the future. He discussed his interest in perusing a career as a physical therapist. However, for now he has decided to wait until next year to apply for a graduate school. He presented a sense of uncertainty, which increase his anxiety, towards his plans for post-graduation from UWB. He discussed a few options he has with regards to his living situation, which include staying with his parents or moving out with his girlfriend. He also expressed financial concerns. He presented an uncertainty about whether he would be able to meet his financial needs.

The debate on the morality and ethics of voluntary or assisted suicide versus passive euthanasia present an intriguing aspect in the nursing field. While there are distinct parallels between voluntary and assisted euthanasia, there exists a similarity that the death is explicitly at the request of the patient, and the doctor acts in a manner that brings about the death of the patient (Beauchamp et al. 2014, p. 82). In contrast, passive euthanasia does not directly involve the doctor and, as such, the patient dies of the medical condition that already afflicts them. However, despite these differences, the question of the ethical justifications of each of these actions remains largely debatable.

As a member of the hospice ethics committee, we realized that this is a decision of John’s choice. We would have to evaluate his legal rights, the Georgia Euthanasia Laws, and to make sure his DNR, which is, “one common request made by dying patients is a “do not resuscitate”; and his living will be up-to-date for his family. A living will, “the kinds of treatments they desire and, more important, the ones they do not. This is called an advance directive and is sometimes referred to as a living will” (Rae, S. B., 2009, p. 215). Consequently, John also needs to verify his agreement that he had preferred an “extraordinary mean,” are those that do not offer such hope and place undue burdens on the patient” (Rae, s. B., 2009, p. 214). To evaluate

Imagine that you have Lou Gehrig’s disease. Imagine that you are lying in a hospital bed knowing that your muscles are gradually and individually shutting down, knowing that eventually your throat and lungs will cease to function, and you will asphyxiate while you lie there waiting. This exact scenario happened to Sue Rodriguez. Sue had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s for two years, knowing it was only a matter of time before she died, when she decided she’d had enough. Sue appealed to the Supreme Court for the right to a peaceful death in 1993, with the famous quote: “If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?” She lost her case 5-4, but later an anonymous doctor illegally helped her end her life.